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India needs to encourage research in frontier areas of Science

By O Prasada Rao
New Delhi, Dec 9 (UNI) India is home to some of the brightest scientific minds in the world, yet it has struggled to win international recognition in the form of Nobel Prizes in science. Since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901, only 12 individuals of Indian origin have received it, and just five were Indian citizens.
Among them, only one -- Dr. C.V. Raman -- won in the science category, way back in 1930, for his discovery of the Raman Effect. Nearly a century has passed since then, and despite many promising discoveries, Indian scientists have not returned to the Nobel stage. This raises a crucial question: why does the Nobel Prize continue to elude Indian scientists, and what can be done to change that?
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